State · 957 – 1513
Kilwa Sultanate
A state of 957 – 1513 — 556 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 1 thing within it — people 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 556 years
- 957 – 1513
- Rulers
- 2
- the Sultan of Kilwa
- Within it
- 1
- recorded row
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of Sultan of Kilwa.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
2 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedFlag used in the east coast of Tanzania according to a Portuguese 1576 map · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dekodrak
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1200 – 12991 row
- Al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman · ruler · 1251 – 1333
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood556 years
stood longer than 89% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 901 – 1569, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1235, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q3107156 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.